LGBTQ

One of the last remaining barriers blocking British armed forces personnel living with HIV from serving has been scrapped. (photo by Jenny Matthews/In Pictures via Getty Images Images) The British Armed Forces has finally lifted a ban on people living with HIV joining the army, though restrictions on PrEP remain. From Tuesday (21 June), serving personnel living with HIV who are receiving effective treatment will be recognised as fully fit to serve and be able to deploy overseas. Service members will need to be receiving treatment that suppresses their viral...

Warner Bros 'set to drop Ezra Miller' after assault allegations (Han Myung-Gu/WireImage) DC bosses reportedly plan to drop Ezra Miller after they were arrested for assault on two separate occasions and accused of harassment. Miller has reportedly been the subject of two protection orders granted in recent weeks. The first saw them accused of using “violence, intimidation, fear, paranoia” and “drugs” to “hold sway” over an 18-year-old. The second was filed by a mother who claims Miller brandished a gun in front of her 12-year-old. Amid these and other scandals,...

Turkish Coast Guard members intervene a boat carrying refugees, who were trying to go to Greek Islands, after being caught by the Turkish coast guards. (Suleyman Elcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty) On World Refugee Day, we question why things are getting worse for asylum seekers – particularly for LGBTQ+ refugees. Increasingly, governments are pursuing hardline approaches that leave asylum seekers out in the cold – there was outcry when Britain’s Home Office announced that it would send refugees who arrive via the English Channel to Rwanda, but the UK is not alone in...

Keke Palmer, who stars as Izzy Hawthorne in Lightyear, says the film's LGBTQ+ representation is "progress". (Neil Mockford/FilmMagic/YouTube/Pixar/Disney) Lightyear star Keke Palmer has applauded the animated film’s LGBTQ+ representation for “depicting life and love the way that exists” in the world. The actor voices Izzy Hawthorne, who becomes a close ally of accomplished Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans), in the Toy Story spin-off. Izzy is the granddaughter of Commander Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), and the film features a same-sex kiss between Alisha and her wife.  Palmer told the i that she thought the inclusion...

Dame Kelly Holmes felt like she was "going to explode with excitement" after coming out publicly as gay. (Mike Marsland/WireImage) British Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes has said she can “finally breathe” after she comes out publicly as gay.  The Olympic gold medallist told the Sunday Mirror that she first realised she was gay at the age of 17 after a fellow female soldier kissed her. But she said a fear of being prosecuted at a time when LGBTQ+ soldiers were banned from the pre-2000 military ban forced her to stay silent.  However, Holmes...

Michael Peterson has criticised HBO Max's true crime series The Staircase for being "homophobic". (YouTube/This Morning/HBO Max) Michael Peterson has blasted the HBO Max series The Staircase as “homophobic” for its “fabricated” depiction of his life and bisexuality.  The true-crime drama series stars Colin Firth as Peterson, a novelist whose wife Kathleen (Toni Collette) was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home in 2001. Peterson became the prime suspect in what became a murder case and was convicted of his wife’s murder in 2003.  He was granted a...

A woman has opened up about coming out in her 50s. (Getty) A trans woman who came out aged 55 has shared her story to inspire older people who are still in the closet. Angela Traill, now 58, shared her inspiring story in an article for Metro published Monday (June 13). Though she didn’t came out as a trans woman until she was 55, she first realised around the age of 10 that she “wasn’t feeling how was supposed to feel”. “I was assigned male at birth but the older I...

A man in his 60s was brutally bashed by a man in a 'despicable' attack. (Stock photograph via Getty Images) A man in his 60s was left suffering severe facial injuries following a “despicable” homophobic attack in Liverpool, England. In the early hours of 16 May, the victim was set upon by a man while walking along Church Street just by the city centre. The perpetrator hurled homophobic slurs at the victim before striking him several times in the face, leaving him with bruises all across his body and facial...

Alexander (Lekso) Lashkarava died after he covered the violent protests at Tbilisi Pride. (Twitter) Georgian security forces allegedly planned and helped to execute the wave of far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ violence that seized Tbilisi in 2021. Tbilisi Pride organisers were forced to cancel its march after its offices were ransacked and violence broke out across the city on 5 July, 2021. Nearly 50 journalists covering the violence were injured as rioters tore through Tbilisi, including TV-Pirveli cameraman Aleksandre Lashkarava, who died six days after a mob brutally beat him for 20 minutes. Almost a...

Peter Keeley was found dead in a ditch in New South Wales, Australia. (NSW Police) A top Australian court has found two teenagers who lured Peter Keely on Grindr only to bind, gag and beat him not guilty of murder. The boys, both aged 17 at the time of the incident so legally cannot be named, faced the NSW Supreme Court in May. Now justice Michael Walton ruled Thursday (16 June) that neither teenagers, now aged 19 and 20, were guilty of Keeley’s murder. Both, however, were convicted of aggravated...

A Saudi Arabian official gestures towards a rainbow toy. (Screen capture via Twitter) Saudi Arabian authorities have begun seizing rainbow-coloured toys and children’s clothing for encouraging homosexuality. Hair clips, bows, pop-its, hats, pencil cases and more have been taken away from shops in the capital Riyadh for “contradicting the Islamic faith and public morals”, one official said. A report broadcast Tuesday evening (14 June) by the state-run Al Ekhbariya news channel claimed the government are confiscating the products as part of a “crackdown” on LGBTQ+ rights. “We are giving a tour...

Lake (Bebe Wood), and Lucy (Ava Capri). (Kelsey McNeal/Hulu) For most of its run, Love, Victor was focused primarily on its two gay male leads – but it’s finally getting some female queer representation. Lucy was introduced in season two as Andrew’s girlfriend, but by the end writers were teasing a queer romance between her and Lake. The season three trailer has already revealed that the two end up dating. And it’s something Ava Capri is thrilled about. “It’s so meaningful to me,” Capri tells PinkNews. “I wasn’t out in high school so...

Gay Welsh political leader Adam Price recalled his experiences with suicide as a young teenager. (Jon Pountne) Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has opened up about his experiences of suicide as a young gay man. Britain’s only openly LGBTQ+ political leader recalled a haunting moment walking home when he was a student in the early 1990s in which he considered taking his own life. “I came here to Cardiff for university and even though we had a very active LGBT society there was something in me that was holding me back,”...

Monkeypox lesions. (UKHSA) UK monkeypox cases have now reached 470, with men making up 99 per cent of all confirmed cases. On Sunday (12 June), UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced that a further 104 cases of monkeypox had been confirmed in England, bringing the UK total to 470. There are currently 452 confirmed cases of the virus in England, 12 in Scotland, two in Northern Ireland and four in Wales. The UKHSA released its first technical briefing on monkeypox on Friday (10 June), including epidemiological data collected through interviews...